D-CENT in Action

Digital platform for participation of the City of Barcelona. It is a tool to build a democratic, open and transparent city by enhancing citizen participation in the definition and development of policies.

Participatory budgeting platform for the city of Reykjavik. The platform is a development from the Betri Reykjavik prioritisation and participation platform allowing citizens to submit ideas on how to spend a part of the city budget in their neighborhood.

Notifications of municipal policy decisions. Using the municipal open API on town hall agendas, the tool allows citizens to sign up to be notified when decisions are made about issues that concern them.

D-CENT Research

Discover and read our research reports conducted by project partners about the theoretical background, social and political processes as well as technical standards for the ethical development and deployment of technologies for democracy.

Testimonials

Democratic Cities event, 23–28 of May 2016 in Madrid, Spain

23rd November 2016

Organised on the 23–28 of May 2016 in Madrid, the Democratic Cities – Commons technology and the right to a democratic city event joined close to 500 participants to talk, workshop, discuss and debate about network democracy, new forms of citizen participation, digital tools for democratic participation, and urban commons. The event was also the final one of the D-CENT project, showcasing our results, tools and research.

Interview with Francesca Bria

27th May 2016

Interview with Francesca Bria from Nesta, as part of the Democratic Cities event 23-28 May, Madrid, Spain. Francesca is the EU Coordinator of the D-CENT project, the biggest European project on direct democracy and digital currencies.

Interview: Denis “Jaromil“ Roio, Dyne.org

11th May 2016

As part of the D-CENT project, Dyne.org has developed Freecoin, a set of free and open source tools to let people run reward schemes that are transparent and auditable to other organisations. In this interview, Jaromil Roio of Dyne.org talks about his work on commons, trust, complementary currencies and Freecoin.

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D-CENT is a Europe-wide project bringing together citizen-led organisations that have transformed democracy in the past years, and helping them in developing the next generation of open source, distributed, and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.